Deborah Tuerkheimer

Tuerkheimer is the author of Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers. She is a professor of law at Northwestern University and a former assistant district attorney in Manhattan

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How U.S. Sexual-Harassment Law Encourages a Culture of Victim Blaming

Melissa Nelson was 20 years old when she was hired to work as a dental assistant for James Knight. Nelson had worked in his Fort Dodge, Iowa, office for more than a decade before he...

By Deborah Tuerkheimer

The Sexual Assault Survivors' Rights Act Is Not Enough

We must also establish bias-free policing

By Deborah Tuerkheimer

The Changing Face of Exonerations

For all the understandable weight we give DNA evidence, it is of little if any use for the vast majority of the wrongfully convicted.

By Deborah Tuerkheimer
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